After nine years living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I'm now living in the French Alps. The natives seem friendly ...guess I'll stick around a while.

Friday, March 11, 2011

The only thing I love more than a good list is a good batch of "before and after" photos.Sadly, I don't have many pics, as I was too busy and disorganised to take as many as I should have...But here's a couple of good ones for your perusal:On the left, you can see the door to the balcony that is now part of the twins' New and Improved Bedroom.

And on the right, we can admire the awesome new ceiling that Paul put in for us (the man has mad plastering skillz, srsly!) and the gorgeous apple green paint on the walls around Alexa's bed....

Below, we see things are being put back into place. This is Mallory's bed:

The next step will be to glue cork board onto the wall above Alexa's bed and the finish the raw edges at the top of the wallpaper....There also remains the small problem of the cement bar running through the wood flooring near Alexa's bed. There was much debate about what to do about the yawning chasm left behind when the original wall came down. Paul said cement would do the trick nicely and I thought it would be fine...and it would have been if it had been well finished....But the job was rather sloppy. By the time he was doing it, I think Paul was tired out and slowly losing the will to live. At any rate, it's not beautiful and probably best covered up by an attractive area rug....